Cable Jottings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 493, 24 October 1928, Page 9

Cable Jottings

SIX MINERS KILLED. An explosion occurred in the McAlpin coalmine at Beckley, West Virginia. Six miners were killed. Tlieir bodies have been recovered.—A.P.A. £ 7,000,000 BRIDGE. The expenditure on the Sydney Harbour Bridge has amounted to £3,500,000. Another •£3.500,000 will bo absorbed by .1931. The current year’s expenditure will be nearly £1,500.000. —A.P.A. MILLIONS FOR PROSPECTOR. — The Anaconda Copper Company of Montana. U.S.A., has lost its final appeal to the Supreme Court, and it must pay to the old prospector. George Campbell Carson. £6.000,000 for his patent blast furnace.—--U.S. SOLDIERS' LAND LOSSES. The activities of the Soldier Settlement Department of South Australia continue to involve heavy losses. The amount sunk in the past year in the Murray River areas was £1.600.000. of which £450.000 was written off. —A.P.A. TRUST FUND FOR JOCKEY. ia reported that prominent racehorse owners and influential friends of the famous jockey, Steve Donogliue, are forming a trust fund of £30,000 to safeguard the future of his family and himself. A bankruptcy receiving order was issued on September 14 on a creditor’s petition against Donogliue. -a.pl GERMANS AT SOCCER. For the first time since the war a German footfall team played in London yesterday. The match took place at Wimbledon between a team representing the Berlin Football Association and a team ot o»en from the clubs in the Isthmian League. The Germans played an admir®ble game, and won bv four goals to one.—British Wireless.'